I just purchased a Wireless Router Adapter, but cannot figure out how to get the damn thing to work. Call me stupid but sheesh. I might have it almost figured out, but idk...how do I obtain my/the Network Key?

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What do you mean by adaptor? pc card for a laptop? usb wireless? PCI card? I'm not sure what you mean. But if I do understand what your asking.

1. Make sure Drivers are installed
2. See if it's in your device manager, if you have a wired nic make sure you disable that, and enable the wireless from the device manager.
3. if all else fails try the network wizard.

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I mean a PCI card, my bad. Once I put in the PCI card and my computer said 'found new hardware' I followed the steps, or what have you. I then put in the installation cd and followed the directions, but it never came up with the final screen that the manual shows..but it 'did' install the PCI card. Eh, it's so confusing.

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Ok, is it being listed in the device manager?

Try and ping the loopback to see if you get anything, 127.0.0.1 if you get 4 reply's it's good, and installed properly, But the main thing is, check the device manager make sure it's activated.

if you get a good reply from the loopback try and ping yahoo.com

reboot the pc.


If you had a previous nic installed on the pc, It's a possibility you may have to flush the ip, and renew it. I've had to do that a few times in my life.


This is the simplest of networking problems you can have.

Also since your using wireless, Since it's a pci card why not use Wired? It's faster and a steadier connection? I know there are reasons you can't use wired, I'm just curious.

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I'd use wire, but I'm trying to keep the fact that I have a pci card thing from my parents. They're no longer down with the downloading. I could get a connection if I could only get a network key, but I'm not sure how to get one. And is there any way once it's up and running to get a full bar connection? I saw my cousins downloading speeds with his wireless router and they were shit.

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I think you need to get it from whoever set up your wirless router, isnt it there to stop unauthrised access to the network?

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Yes, that's what it is for. What do you mean, the person who set up my wireless router? Sorry if I sound clueless, I am new to this.

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you need to log in to your routers setup/admin page. This is normally done via entering its ip address into your net browser. Once you have done that, go to the security section and you should be able to find your network key (if you have one set).

Unfortunately, in my experience, the pc will need to be wired to the router to do this (unless you had the forsight to write the key down somewhere), which is a pain in the arse if the pc is upstairs and the router downstairs!

also, use the software that came with your wireless adapter, as the one windows uses is shit.

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Also if you parents dont want you downloading, and dont know you have a wireless network card there going to find it a bit odd tha your asking them for the username and password for you to be able to log into the router.

Are you only able to pick up the router in your house, or are there other networks avalibe, if so have a look and see ifyou can connect tothem, i can pick up 5-10 different wireless networks from my house, only a couple of them are actually secure, all theothers I can connect to and downlaod using there BW instead of mine, also all the unsecure ones still have the defult username password for the router so if I ever need to change sdomething like port forwarding I can just log into there router and change itmyself.


From the sounds of what your saying the only way you are going to be able to get your wireless working is by getting your dad to set it up so you can use the router, which defeats the point of what your trying to do, which is not let him know what your doing :P

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Thanks guys. You make a good point. But I installed the router cd on his computer and installed the adapter cd on mine...and all that fun stuff. I've seen people use other peoples connections, and when I went to connect, it had my dads computer name and somebody elses..but I still needed a Key.

Edit: I feel stupid but I put what I believe was my whole IP address/number whatever into the browser and it didn't come up. How many numbers should it be?

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its not your IP addrsss, its the IP of the router, what router do you have that has the internet connection going into it ?

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Your IP address should be four octets (e.g. 62.44.55.66) however you don't need to put your own IP address into the browser, you need to log onto the PC that actually has the wireless router connected to it and browse to the router's IP address (grr.. beaten ^^^).

Try running "ipconfig" from your dad's PC and have a look at his default gateway (often it'll be the same first three octets with a .1 or .254 on the end - e.g. 62.44.55.1). Once you browse succesfully to that IP address, you should get a username/password prompt. If he hasn't changed them, you should be able to search the web for the default username/password. Once in, you should be able to obtain the key and you will possibly need to add your MAC address to the filter list (if enabled). That can be obtained from your laptop by running "ipconfig /all" - it's labelled as your physical address.

Let us know how you get on.

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Thanks again, I really appreciate the help. What router as in the brand/model? If so, I have a D-LINK Wireless G Router, DI-524.

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Username is "admin", password is blank by default.

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if he has it set up so you need a key to connect the chances are he is smart enough to change the defult login

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if he has it set up so you need a key to connect the chances are he is smart enough to change the defult login

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That's hilarious ^^^^! My dad knows nothing about computer really, so keeping it a 'secret' should be pretty easy. The router was originally my sisters, but she moved out, so now I'm claiming. My dad didn't even know what it was!

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Did you get it working ??? can log into the other wireless routers you can detect and configure it to allow you a internet connection. If they have a different router you might need ot change the IP using to connect, also the defult username/pas might be different. soes it tell you what the router is when you see what wireless connections are avalible

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Go to the router, take a paperclip and unbend it, insert end of paperclip into the reset hole and push the reset button, hold it for 1 minute, when the router quits flashing and all lights come on look for an unsecured network, connect, log in through your web browser to :192.168.0.1 (DLINKS default IP on most models) with the admin credentials given above.

set the configuration how you want it.

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Go to the router, take a paperclip and unbend it, insert end of paperclip into the reset hole and push the reset button, hold it for 1 minute, when the router quits flashing and all lights come on look for an unsecured network, connect, log in through your web browser to :192.168.0.1 (DLINKS default IP on most models) with the admin credentials given above.

set the configuration how you want it.

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